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Foster Parenting: Resources for Child Welfare Caseworkers and Professionals
Improving assessment of foster parents' needs, engaging foster parents as team members in case planning, and providing supportive services to foster parents are key strategies for improving permanency and well-being outcomes for children in foster care.
Information Gateway website sections that provide information and resources about:
- Assessing foster parents
- Engaging foster parents in case planning
- Supportive services for foster parents
Assessing foster parents
Out-of-Home Care
Systemwide
Achieving & Maintaining Permanency
Engaging foster parents in case planning
Out-of-Home Care
Family-Centered Practice
Achieving & Maintaining Permanency
- Preparing foster/adoptive parents
- Foster parents' role in supporting permanency
- Preparing children and youth for permanency
- Concurrent planning
- Transition and postplacement support
- Permanent placements with relatives
Systemwide
Supportive services for foster parents
Out-of-Home Care
- Supporting and retaining foster families
- Support services for relative/kinship caregivers
- Support services for foster parents
- Related resources: Foster parents